When a climate cycle and a warming trend collide, oceans pay the price—and scientists worry about what comes next.

By refusing to look away, a space telescope discovered that planets are commonplace, not rare exceptions to the cosmic rule.

Maple syrup sugarhouses, shown as a thematic illustration of a hypothetical retirement example. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Imagine a Vermont sugarmaker retiring with roughly 800 gallons of ...

First-light collage for ESO’s MOONS spectrograph on the VLT: Unit Telescope 1 at Cerro Paranal with an inset of Baade’s Window showing fibre pointings. Credit: ESO/MOONS team/VVV survey/F. Char (ESO ...

The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...

An Artemis II astronaut photographed the cratered Moon and crescent Earth from Orion in April 2026. Credit: NASA. The image is illustrative and is not one of the microbial-survival maps from the study ...

Wade out from the north-western shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, keep walking until the water reaches your chest, and there is a fair chance you are standing on a mosque. In the autumn of 2025, an ...

Almost everyone over thirty has had the same disorienting thought. The year is ending again. The summer is gone. The decade just turned over and somehow nothing about the calendar feels like it lines ...

There is a difference between knowing something and just feeling like you already know it. Epictetus built a whole piece of advice around that gap. As one modern translation of his Discourses (2.17.1) ...

NASA’s Mars relay infrastructure is dying, and the agency just put a 30-day clock on finding a replacement. The Request for Proposal for the Mars Telecommunications Network, posted this week to the ...

Quote of the day, from Friedrich Nietzsche: “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” It’s the kind of line that can sound like a fridge magnet if you meet it cold, the sort of thing ...

A living root bridge starts out looking like something somebody forgot to pull up. A single pale root, no thicker than a shoelace, gets threaded by hand through a hollowed-out betel nut trunk laid ...